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Study cites toll of AIDS policy in South Africa - Print Version - International Herald ... - 0 views

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HIV_AIDS pandemic South-Africa Mbeki

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  • The document maintained that antiretrovirals were toxic. And it suggested that powerful vested interests — drug companies, governments, scientists — pushed the consensus view of AIDS in a quest for money and power, while peddling centuries-old white racist beliefs that depicted Africans as sexually rapacious.
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      Reasons why Mbeki did not believe that HIV would exclusively cause AIDS.
  • Jacob Zuma, who is expected to become president after next year's election, himself made a famously questionable remark about AIDS. In his 2006 rape trial, in which he was acquitted of sexually assaulting a family friend, he testified that he sought to reduce his chances of being infected with HIV by taking a shower after sex. Nonetheless, he seems to have more conventional views on the pandemic.
  • A new study by Harvard researchers estimates that the South African government would have prevented the premature deaths of 365,000 people earlier this decade if it had provided antiretroviral drugs to AIDS patients and widely administered drugs to help prevent pregnant women from infecting their babies.
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  • Reckoning with a legacy of such policies, Mbeki's's successor, Kgalema Motlanthe, acted on the first day of his presidency two months ago to remove the health minister, Manto Tshabalala-Msimang, a polarizing figure who had proposed garlic, lemon juice and beetroot as AIDS remedies. He replaced her with Barbara Hogan, who has brought South Africa — the most powerful country in a region at the epicenter of the world's AIDS pandemic — back into the mainstream.
  • They estimated that by 2005, South Africa could have been helping half those in need but had reached only 23 percent. By comparison, Botswana was already providing treatment to 85 percent of those in need, and Namibia to 71 percent.
  • The 330,000 South Africans who died for lack of treatment and the 35,000 babies who perished because they were infected with HIV together lost at least 3.8 million years of life, the study concluded.
  • the researchers had based their estimates on conservative assumptions and used a sound methodology
  • South Africa today is home to 5.7 million people who are HIV-positive — more than any other nation, almost one in five adults. More than 900 people a day die here as a result of AIDS, the United Nations estimates.
Marina Lacroix

Addressing Cultural Sensitivities - 0 views

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youth reproductive health reproductive rights obstacles youth participation

shared by Marina Lacroix on 28 Jan 09 - Cached
  • common concern among adults that adolescent reproductive health programs will encourage adolescent sexual activity
  • Young people have traditionally learned about sex and reproduction through the extended family or via a network of neighbors or friends, often in conjunction with well-defined rituals or rites of passage. Sex education in the schools can be perceived as a challenge to these more traditional routes. Furthermore, most societies do not grant adolescents full legal, economic, and social rights. Adult control over young people’s access to health education and services, including contraception, is seen as natural.
  • politicians and government officials often enact laws and formal policies that limit their access to reproductive health care. Such regulations usually require a minimum age, parental consent, or that a person be married to receive the service
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  • Even where no formal restrictions exist, many health workers refuse or are reluctant to provide unmarried or childless young people—especially young women—with contraceptives. Teachers and other professionals who interact with youth share similar biases
  • Religious groups, for example, have strongly opposed school-based sexuality education in the United States, Mexico, and Kenya
  • Involve youth. Young people are among the most effective advocates for change, and several programs have channeled their energy and enthusiasm into helping modify social norms and lower barriers to youth programming. Members of the Youth Advocacy Movement of the Bahamas Family Planning Association produced a "photojournal" depicting issues of importance to youth. They presented these to Ministry of Health officials to highlight youth concerns as part of a broader campaign to advocate for greater attention to youth health.54 In the Dominican Republic, advocacy by youth, including visits to legislators, a letter-writing campaign to local and national government officials, and rallies and other events were key to the recent passage of a national youth law.55 In Brazil, community members initially ridiculed girls trained to speak to other youth on HIV/AIDS and sexuality. As the value of their work became apparent, the girls gained the respect of the community and changed beliefs about the proper role of young women in openly discussing sex.56
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The Future of UNAIDS - Worldpress.org - 0 views

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HIV_AIDS UNAIDS

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  • The first major challenge is that the HIV/AIDS pandemic is still a formidable foe
  • The second challenge is that the future of the global response against HIV/AIDS today rest on four intricately linked shaky foundations:
  • lack of capacity to prevent HIV transmission at individual levels, and, the lack of capacity to mobilize care and support at family and community levels.
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  • needs younger leaders and scientists with fresh ideas and sense of purpose
  • Foundations, philanthropies and wealthy individuals are yet to become the backbone of the fight against HIV/AIDS
  • Resource-challenged target populations and governments remain at the outside, looking in
  • Organizations operating at local levels are yet to become integrated within national and international HIV/AIDS remedial programs.
  • The multiple roles of UN agencies
  • The third significant challenge is the twin slow progress in the search for HIV vaccine and the quest for universal access to HIV/AIDS services on or before 2010
  • UNAIDS should undergo a comprehensive, independent strategic, policy and operational review
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MinVWS | Meer voorlichting over seksualiteit - 0 views

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sex education Netherlands policy

shared by Marina Lacroix on 09 Nov 08 - Cached
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  • Staatssecretaris Bussemaker heeft besloten jaarlijks 800.000 euro extra ter beschikking te stellen voor voorlichtingactiviteiten over seksualiteit.
  • Het doel van deze leefstijlcampagne is jongeren weerbaar en competent te maken als het gaat om relaties en seksualiteit en het voorkomen van problemen, zoals seksuele dwang en ongewenste zwangerschap
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  • Een leefstijlcampagne is een landelijk uitvoeringsprogramma met lokale activiteiten (bijvoorbeeld voorlichting georganiseerd door een GGD) en een nationale massamediale component. Een campagne wordt ontwikkeld in samenwerking met de doelgroep (in dit geval jongeren die starten met relaties, intimiteit en seksualiteit).
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